HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Basel

A human name, held in the Social Security file. It is not in the Administration’s index of agent names, and it has no classification.

Table 1. Basel, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	7,256
2025 number	11
Peak year	1914
Peak rank	2,471
Years present	57 of 146
Dog licences, New York	4
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Basel was given to 11 boys in 2025, ranking 7,256th for the year. It peaked in 1914, when it ranked 2,471st and went to 8 babies. It has appeared in 57 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 325 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Basel

Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

64%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, one bilabial stop, one sibilant, ends on a consonant. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.